16, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

16, Castle Street

WRENN ID
sheer-pier-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1972
Type
House
Address
16, Castle Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1BP
OS grid reference
TL 537 386
Coordinates
52.02514, 0.23892
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

16 Castle Street is a house dating from around 1800. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring ashlar lining on a brick plinth, all of which is colourwashed. The roof is slate, and there is a red brick stack in stretcher bond. The building has a rectangular plan and stands two storeys tall.

The north front elevation has two window ranges with sash windows that have moulded architraves and thin glazing bars. The first floor windows consist of three panes by four panes, while the ground floor includes one window of four panes by four panes, along with a cellar grille below. There is an adjacent doorway with an overlight, and the door has four beaded flush panels and a round-headed footscraper in the plinth. The stack is positioned off-centre to the west.

The south rear elevation is similar to the front, featuring a ground floor doorway that has been restored in the 20th century, complete with a moulded architrave. This door has two glazed upper panes and a single depressed moulded panel. A window on the ground floor matches the front's four panes by four panes, while the first floor has two three-light casement windows with glazing bars, each with three panes by two panes.

On the east end elevation, there are two early 20th-century three-light windows on the ground floor and one two-light window on the first floor. Timber wallplates are visible. Inside, there is a large axial ceiling joist on the ground floor, positioned off-centre towards the front, suggesting that the house may have an earlier design from the 17th century.

Local climate

16, Castle Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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